Morata de Jalón (a.k.a. Chodes) – Zaragoza’s Main Event
We’d visited Zaragoza’s premier crag a couple of times before, in contrasting weather, bookending our 2017 winter trip. Looking back, I was impressed by our efforts (not so much the […]
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Trasobares
Trasobares is the next village east from Calcena, about six very winding miles (allow 15mins to drive or stroll along the GR90 in a couple of hours) It’s a veritable […]
Calcena revisited – it just gets better!
Calcena, near Zaragoza, was without doubt our favourite discovery of our 2022 Spain trip: With a decent forecast we were keen to introduce Jim and Claire to this delightful part […]
Camarasa – New Finds and Old Favourites
The area around Lleida, and specifically near Camarasa, has an unusual microclimate – often enjoying high pressure and blue skies in winter, even if the air temperature might be struggling […]
Hot and Bove’d – Back to Bovedon and Bovedin
Quite a lot has changed since our last visits to the trio of Bove… crags near Gandía (Bovedon, Bovedin and Bovedos) – we’d probably had only one or two previous […]
Pinet – Off the Radar Paradise
Our chance encounter with Kev and Jen at Cucala was not just a happy reconnection but also resulted in a top tip for a new climbing area to explore… The […]
Algimia d’Alfara – a bit of a Marmite crag
Mid morning in Navajas and it still only says 2C on the outside thermometer. Plenty of time to scour the web for a sunny sheltered crag, the problem being that […]
Cucala and Araya – Rock Around Castellón
Those of you who know me well will have me down as a bit of an app junkie, which is a fair assessment. Our new favourite climbing website is TheCrag.com […]
Rock hungry and windswept – climbing in Alto Palancia, Castellón
RockAroundTheWorld is back on the road! After a mildly harrowing journey (engine warning light on the way to the ferry, and Force 9 in the Bay of Biscay) we were […]
Val de Cinca and Orange Snow
With Storm Celia lashing much of Spain with rain, we headed north into the Pyrenees once again, which was counter-intuitively forecasted to have better weather (better but not necessarily great!) […]
More Calcena and a Rest Day with the Vultures
The forecasted “Big Rain” wasn’t much more than drizzle, and it was at least as wet everywhere else, so we stayed put in Calcena. To pass the time we made […]
Calcena – a New Addition to our List of Favourite Places
Many of you will be familiar with our favoured reference source for exploring Spain (at least in print) – Donde Escalar has inspired numerous happy finds over the years, and […]
La Pauta – Small but perfectly formed
This was a “new to us” crag, even though it appeared in the first edition of Lleida Climbs. I guess the reason we hadn’t visited previously is because its sweet […]
Castillonroi
Helen stumbled on this series of crags on the web, and it gets a 3 carabiner rating in Donde Escalar (out of a maximum of 6) this roughly translates as […]
Camarasa – Sector Solarium
Our unexpected 4-day weather window of Roca Caliente in Los Pirineos came to an end, prompting the usual soul / app-searching. Without an obvious “grand beau temps” candidate amid a […]
Santa Ana and Alos de Balaguer
A couple of return trips to places we’ve been before – albeit new sectors. I signed off my 2014 Santa Ana post with: Definitely somewhere we’ll return on future trips. […]
Valle de Isabena & Alins
Valle de Isabena runs parallel to and to the west of the main thoroughfare from Lleida to France – in fact Google maps routed us along it on the way […]
Bagergue – Val d’Aran
With a sunny day in prospect, we decided to check out the most northerly area covered in the Roca Caliente guidebook. The Val d’Aran is the northernmost extent of Catalunya, […]
Escales – Els Escondite
The Escales section of the guidebook runs to almost a hundred pages, with a dozen sectors and a couple of hundred routes in the vicinity of the reservoir of the […]
Viuet – Roca Caliente en los Pirineos
OK – did anyone guess right? After much forecast-searching and head-scratching on a rainy morning in Alto Mijares we set the controls of Rockaroundtheworld for the Heart of the Sun […]
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